Inspection procedures

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Harry,

While this has been true for many years now, just recently (probably in the last year, or so), inbound inspections are made.  While performing the inspection, the car monks also bleed the air off the cars, thus making them ready to hump when the inspection is finished. Occasionally, when a track needs to be humped ahead of an inspection (perhaps because of rush cars needed from that track), the track may be bled by a yard crew, or Utility, then humped immediately. The inspections, typically, take about an hour or so. Of course, it might be two hours before the Car Dept. can even get to the train. (This was probably the main reason for skipping that step - NO ONE likes to see the hump setting idle, waiting for cars to hump!)

Outbound inspections are still made, of course, and shop cars are still found and have to be cut out. But, obviously the inbound inspections reduce that number tremendously.

Jeff Sanders
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
  To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:08 AM
  Subject: Inspection procedures


  Why has NS opted to change  inspections from the inbound train to the
  outbound train ?  In times past, the car knockers would walk the inbound
  and direct cars with mechanical defects to the shop.  Now that the
  inspection is made to the outbound, when defects are found, everybody
  stands around and waits while a crew knocks out the bad order.   Yard
  leads blocked.  Initial terminal overtime.  Train delay, etc. etc. etc.
                                                         Harry Bundy


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